Thill for vehicles



(No Model.)

B WARREN THILL FOR VBHIGLES.

No. 403,497. Patented May 14, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDI-VARD \VARREN, OF LIGONIER, INDIANA.

THILL FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,497, dated May 14, 1889. Application filed August 29, 1884. Renewed October 20, 1886. Again renewed November 5, 1888. Serial No. 290,043. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be itknown that I, EDWARD IVARREN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Ligonier, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thills for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is aperspective View of my improved t-hills or shafts for carriages and wagons. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, and Fig. at is a perspective view illustrating a modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to thills or shafts for carriages and wagons; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A A represent the shafts, which are of ordinary or suitable construction and of any desired material.

B represents the rear cross-bar, which, instead of being straight or only slightly curved, as usual, is curved backward and downward until its central point, B, is in about the same plane as the heels or rear ends, A, ofthe shafts A. This central point, B, may be hinged to the axle-tree of the carriage or wagon, or coupled thereto in the same manner as the heels or ends of the thills A A, which would of course not be possible if the points A, B, and A were not in line with one another.

If desired, the place where the curved heels A connect with the curved and rounded cross-bar B may be re-enforced by webs at, either integral with the material of which the shafts are made or fastened thereto in any suitable manner. These re-enforcing webs, when used, operate to strengthen and stiffen that part of the shaft and to brace them to the curved cross-bar B.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the shafts and crossbar made in a single piece by doubling both ends of the material upon itself, so as to form the curved heels A. This construction will be found preferable where light steel or tubular iron is used in the construction, owing to its great strength. Where this construction is employed, the parts A, B, and A are curved in the same plane in like manner as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, so that the middle of the cross-bar may, if desired, be coupled upon the axle-tree.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improvement in thills or shafts for carriages and wagons, a downwardly and rearwardly curved rear cross-bar, curved in a plane with the curved heels or extensions of the thills proper, and adapted to be connected at its lowest middle part to the axletree, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the shafts A A, and rearwardly-curved rear cross-bar, B, having the middle part, B, of its lowermost end in a line with the ends of the curved heels A A, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the shafts AA, rearwardly-curved rear cross-bar, B, having the middle part of its lowermost end in a line with the ends of the heels A A, and the reenforcing webs a a, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD WARREN.

WVitnesses:

A. BASSTEN, DANIEL W. GREEN. 

